Shrub or small tree up to 4 m. tall with rather stiff, spreading, angled, viscid branchlets clad in yellowish tomentum. Lvs of young plants and reversion shoots linear-spathulate, up to 1·5 cm. long, white-tomentose below; lvs of adult plants 5-10 mm. long, linear-obovate, on petioles c. 1 mm. long, subcoriac., glab. above when mature, clad in yellowish tomentum below, margins flat to slightly revolute. Capitula up to 10 × 5-7 mm., solitary, on short branchlets; florets 8-20, of ray up to 14; phyll. in 3-4 series, ∞, forming a narrow-turbinate involucre, fulvous, viscid-pubescent. Achenes 1-1·5 mm. long, glab. or nearly so, compressed, grooved; pappus-hairs 5-6 mm. long.
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